Coffee

1zpresso J-Max grinder and Cafelat Robot is my daily driver. I use 20g in and 40g out with a 5sec 2-bar preinfusion and usually get it done in about 30 sec at 6 bars of pressure. I started running at 6bars a couple of months ago instead of the classic 8 and I prefer the change.

Ditto Ghostx. I also do James Hoffman’s AeroPress recipe. If I’m making for more than myself, I do the AeroPress AeroPress recipe which allows me to distribute the coffee more evenly and it makes a nice, crisp and snappy cup!

My dad gave me his old krups that he's had for forever and just never used, but I'm still learning how to effectively use it. I can at least brew with it but I have not mastered the milk steaming yet, so I've been leaning into more basic ice coffees. 1 shot of espresso + eyeballed pour of caramel syrup + 7 ice cubes from my small tray + rest of the cup with milk. Once I start narrowing what beans I like/what I like about them, I'm hoping to refine my process a bit better, but I have some beans that my FIL roasted and I gotta say, all coffee tastes better having been roasted and brewed with care. :)

Got a Breville Barista something or other and have been using it daily for 2-3 years now. I am by no means good at this, but I have the morning iced drinks for my wife and I perfected.

We usually get our beans from the Atlas coffee club thingy and rarely have a miss from them. When we recently found some beans from them we LOVED (some honey processing one) we managed to get some more bags of it from them and during that process found out that when they roast and package the beans, they're shipped out within a few hours of a batch being finished. I honestly expected them to be older than that, which everybody tells me is a bad thing for espresso. So that was cool.

I prefer hot coffee, but I want a milk drink in the mornings and can't be bothered to steam milk within minutes of waking up. What a pain. But hey, iced works well enough.

I'm grinding with the feldgrind and I recently switched over from the V60 to the clever dripper. It's just a bit easier in the mornings.

I use a modified rancilio silvia. It has a PID with the boiler set at 216°F. I also have it moded for pre-infusion. I do a 10 second pre-infusion and a shot time of ~27 seconds. 20 grams in 40 grams out. There is an awesome local roaster, light house roasters, they have a variety of beans to choose from. I'm still learning and chasing that perfect shot.

Just using my aeropress at home. I do also have a Clever dripper that I use now and again, but I just feel the aeropress is more convenient for me.
I am in the market for a coffee machine, just need to work out where the hell I can put it in my kitchen

My current go-to is a Hario Switch using the immersion method. For the longest time I brewed in a French press, then I tried an Aeropress, now I'm onto the Switch and it's like the best of both previous devices for me.

Baratza Encore set to ~28
32oz French Press (making ~16oz at a time most days)

Best coffee I can reliably find locally is Counter Culture, which I learned to love when I was a barista for a year. I usually get the Apollo if it's fresh enough, but I also love their Gradient, Hologram, and Fast Forward. It's the only coffee around that has the roast date printed on the bag, and it's always less than a month old. I used to be able to find it less than a week old, but I guess the stock doesn't turn over fast enough.

Currently I'm definitely in that "got a new Orea" camp : D

I got my "negotiator" a couple days ago and have been trying to get the hang of using it with flat filters. (I got some of the hilariously expensive sibarist ones to try.) It's a little fussy to get everything situated, especially compared to the very easy workflow of the Mugen that has been my main brewer.

Today it's already pretty warm here so I did a batch of iced coffee using Rogue Wave's Doi Seket. 55 on the ZP6, 28 grams of coffee, 300g of water, 200g of ice, doing a simple 5 pours of equal size.

This coffee has been a bit tricky to brew for me, with a papery astringency that has been tricky to avoid, so I dropped the temp down a little bit in brewing, which seems to have helped somewhat.

Aeropress loosely following James Hoffman's recipe at ~18g/300ml. Using a Knock Aergrind at 1:8, and the Aeropress stainless steel filter.

Technivorm Moccamaster

Depends on the mood a bit, mostly a variety of Moccamaster machine, Bialetti or small French press. Cheaper Beans for the machine, and the quality stuff for the two others ☕

I want to move some days from v60 to something easier….. so my wife could make coffee for me once in a while lol. Apart from a machine or a French press… what good and easy?

I've been pretty busy the past year, and most recently I've just been lazy, so lately I've just been using my French press. I have a cheap calphalon espresso machine but I guess at some point I'll clean it and use that again.

Edit to add: I also use a bialetti moka pot for laziness.